Guns don’t kill people?
The often cited mantra of the pro-gun lobby. Maybe guns don’t kill people in themselves, but they do make it a damn sight easier. An Australian study reviewing 10 years of suicide data following the former Howard government’s gun buyback has found the rate of firearms suicides has fallen by 74 percent. Mr Howard’s agreement [...]
Off in their own parallel universe …
… there are a number of ALP functionaries claiming that Saturday’s election result was something other than a damning rejection of them. NSW premier Kristina Keneally is one of them. She blames the former prime minister, Kevin Rudd, for the federal ALP’s poor vote in her state – in particular its failure to invest in [...]
Balls!
I bet you didn’t know there was such a thing as a world testicle cooking championship. It takes place in Ozrem, Serbia each year. I bet that’s a damn exciting place – if that is the highlight of the year. While it is open to cooks from all over the world, organisers admit that it [...]
Hey presto, rabbit out of a hat
I must admit to being very cynical about the Government’s announcement today that the National Broadband Network (NBN) will deliver speeds much higher than the originally promised 100 mbps. Talk about pulling rabbits out of hats. How convenient, a week and a bit before the election when the government is desperately trying to differentiate itself [...]
Was she worth it? part 2
Not only did former David Jones CEO Mark McInnes behaviour cost him millions in forgone income, it now seems likely to cost him and David Jones much more in a lawsuit lodged today by the woman he allegedly sexually harassed. Kristy Fraser-Kirk, 25, a junior publicist who is suing McInnes and the company for about [...]
So my imaginary deity is better than your imaginary deity
And that makes me superior to you, so says David Barker, former Liberal party candidate for the western Sydney electorate of Chifley. Mr Barker, who calls himself a "man of strong Christian faith", reportedly used his Facebook site to accuse Labor of moving the nation closer to being a Muslim country. In a letter to [...]
Making shit up as you go
That’s what the proposal to have an offshore refugee processing facility in East Timor looks to have been. Something our new prime minister, the ranga queen, Julia Gillard, made up the other day as a response to political pressure to do something about the problem of asylum seekers illegally entering Australia by boat. East Timor’s [...]
Two negatives
BP, meet vuvuzela. BP is in the shit right now over its Mexican Gulf oil spill, and its seemingly inept handling of the aftermath. They must be the most loathed company around right now. And loathed also, is the vuvuzela, the plastic horn responsible for the sound of the soccer World Cup in South Africa. [...]
Not exactly virginal
A number of employees of the airline Virgin Blue were sacked for repeatedly using the company’s computers to view and swap pornography. The airline said the (more than 20) staff had been "terminated" this week after ignoring at least one warning about breaching the company’s code of conduct regarding inappropriate internet use. Sources close to [...]
Kevin the weasel
Something that Kevin Rudd made a big deal about in the 2007 election campaign was attacking the amount of government paid but really party political advertising that the then Liberal government undertook. Mr Rudd was going to tighten things up, and ensure government moneys were only used for legitimate informational advertising, and not political advertising. [...]
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